Cannabis Time Capsule, 1934: Knives, razors and a can of marijuana

Today's Colorado Cannabis Time Capsule is a short tale giving us a glimpse into the mind of a 1930s Colorado criminal named Anderson.

This time around, the news brief comes from the Douglas County Record-Journal, based out of Castle Rock. It's dated February 9, 1934.

The piece's brevity leaves us to fill in a few major gaps in this simple but intriguing story. We use some vintage photos to help us do it.

The article says William Campbell and Pat Summors (no explanation about their background -- we're assuming everyone in tiny Trinidad knew them) were tooling around one day near the Colorado State Penitentiary in Trinidad when they came upon a trove filled with a "motley collection of makeshift weapons."

As for what they found, "The assortment included thirty crude knives, daggers, blackjacks, razors, three homemade electric hotplates, a tier key to a cellhouse at the prison" -- and lastly -- "a can of marijuana."

To us, it sounds like ol' Anderson was going to get stoned and then go fuck some shit up with his assorted collection of death implements.

We assuming that whoever stashed the cache got word to Anderson about the treasure's location. Only problem was, Anderson clearly wasn't good with directions. The stash box had a letter addressed him dated 1931, and it was found in 1934.

The article says Anderson was released from jail in 1931, the same year as the letter -- giving him 36 months or so to drive himself mad looking for his stash.

That's really it for the story, so we dug up a few photos of what prison life was like from the state penitentiary in the era during which Anderson did time.